Alchemilla gracilis, Opiz

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1981, Flora Europaea. Volume 2. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambridge University Press : 57

53. A. gracilis Opiz in Berchtold & Opiz, Ökon.-Techn. FI. Böhm. 2(1): 14 (1838)

( A. micans Buser ; inch A. opizii Hadac ).

Medium-sized, up to 50 cm, usually rather slender. Leaves more or less reniform, subsericeous; lobes 9(—11), rounded, with no incisions and narrow, subequal teeth. Both surfaces of leaves, petioles and lower half of stem with more or less dense, erectopatent or even almost subappressed, rather soft hairs. Inflorescence narrow, with diffuse glomeruli, its branches with sparse hairs or glabrous; pedicels glabrous. Hypanthium long, rather narrowly cuneate at base, glabrous. 2zi = c. 93, 104-110. N.E. & C. Europe, extending to S. W. Norway, E. France, N. Italy and C. Greece. Au Be Bu Cz D a Fe Ga Ge G r He Hu It Ju No Po Rm Rs (N, B, C, W) Su.

Easily distinguished (in well-grown specimens) from 41 and 51, with which it often grows, by the subappressed hairiness of the upper leaf-surface, the narrow inflorescence and the elongated hypanthium.

Related species include:

A. hians Juz. in Komarov, FZ. URSS 10: 621 (1941). C. Ural. Rs (C).

A. lindbergiana Juz. , Not. Syst. (Leningrad) 4: 181 (1923) ( A. atrifolia Zamels ). C. & E. Russia. Rs (?B, C).

A. malimontana Juz. , Not. Syst. (Leningrad) 16: 153 (1954). 5. Ural. Rs (C).